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In the war against the Cimbri and Teutones he was sent to defend the passage of the Alps but found himself compelled to retreat across the Po River , his troops having been reduced to a state of panic. But the Cimbri were Defeated on the Raudine plain, near Vercellae , by the united armies of Catulus and Marius. When the chief honour was given to Marius, Catulus became his bitter opponent. He sided with Sulla in the Civil War , was included in the proscription list of 87, and when Marius declined to pardon him, committed Suicide . He was distinguished as an Orator , Poet and Prose writer, and was well versed in Greek Literature . He is said to have written the history of his consulship and the Cimbrian War after the manner of Xenophon ; two Epigram s by him have been preserved, one on Roscius the celebrated actor ( Cicero , ''De Nat. Deorum'', I. 28), the other of an erotic character, imitated from Callimachus ( Gellius xix. 9). Catulus was a man of great wealth, which he spent in beautifying '', to commemorate the day of Vercellae, and the ''Porticus Catuli'', built from the sale of the Cimbrian spoils. See Plutarch , Marine, Sulla; Appian , B.C. i. 74; VeIl. Pat. ii. 21; Florus iii. 21; Val. Max. vi. 3, ix. 13; Cicero, ''De Oratore'', iii, 8, ''Brutus'', 35. REFERENCE |
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